Stoelen met ornamentele rugleuningen 1908

Here’s Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, sketching ornamental chairs, probably with a graphite pencil on paper. Look at the chairs, just standing there waiting to be immortalized. I’m picturing the artist squinting, making quick decisions about what to include, what to leave out. It's not about perfection, you know? It’s about getting the essence of the chair-ness, the weight, the shape, all of that. What’s he thinking about, I wonder, while he’s drawing these fancy chairs? Is he imagining someone sitting in them, maybe a queen or a very important art critic? There’s something so immediate and personal about a sketch, it's like a little window into the artist’s brain. It’s cool how artists are in this ongoing conversation, riffing off each other, inspiring each other, across time.